They still make them
It's just they are prohibitively expensive
I have some 486 ones from Dolch I picked up from someone who didn't know what they were.
Wish I had the cash for a shiney new FlexPAC with a handheld wireless display *swoon*
Apple already had 'skinnable' laptops with the Powerbook 1400.
You could get "Bookcovers"(tm) from Apple and others. Apple had(s) a template on their ftp you can download to print your own.
I seem to recall an actual useful Bookcover, a solar panel to recharge your battery, if I'm not mistaken
That's mostly because the clones had a superior product at a lower price...
Of course, it is bad mojo to bite the hand that feeds you I guess. I often wondered why no one has reverse engineered apple's HW ala Compaq. I suppose if someone did they wouldn't make any money, maccies would shun it and non-maccies wouldn't care.
[[Unless of course you're a reasonably bright kid who was into computers early and skipped a proper unversity education to catch the IT boom and are now looking down the barrel of 40 years in a mature industry with no qualifications and no learning skills with which to update your specific technical knowledge.]]
Yeah, you can see me in the Xtramart on E. Main. I work third shift.:/
I'm still milling over which kernel to use with my old 486's.
Right now, they're running 2.2.10, iirc; whatever the debian stable had on her boot disks.
I'm not going to compile any kernels until my dual ppro is fixed, because compiling a kernel on a PoS 486 portable is not fun:P
Anyone have any comments/recommendations on if/which new kernels are good to run on old shite?
[Paranoia]
How long will it be before the shadow government/oil,electric companies/*terrorists* buy out/steal this and wreak havoc on us all with mutated light bulb beasts that can think and speak!?!?
[/Paranoia]
I wonder if Art Bell will announce this thing... naw, that's a lie.
The campus LAN at my old school was a freaking gold mine. A lot better stuff, fun to poke around without actually looking for something particular, and the download speeds were obscenely fast.
Of course, most of the student population probably doesn't know about intranet file sharing. The nerds either have to spread the word, or keep their mouths shut, depending on how many lusers they want raping internal xfer speeds:P
The old Atari/Commie print ads are the best because *everyone* in the picture is high on cocaine.
If you remember, then you know what I'm talking about, anyone else need not reply.
Quite, but with horrendously expensive players like the Pioneer LD-S9 and HLD-X9, does one really mind?
I know I wouldn't.... hmmm, delicious 3D Comb Filters of Power [+4!]
Like many other useless sequels, this Can't Be Good(tm)
For me, the only thing that could salvage the effort would be Wendy Carlos doing the soundtrack again. Then at least we could listen to some kickass music
It'll probably be marketed at early/mid teenaged kids and have shite techno/dj 'gods' doing the music.
While the "use the aftermarket" arguement has always been a crutch in the Apple community, the whole mouse thing is getting tedious.
Yes, we can all go buy 3rd party mice and use them on our Macs... Why do we have to?
Has the Reality Distortion Field cranked up to high-gear? Some of the hardware engineers have to lock Steve in a closet while they stick at least a secondary mouse button on the OEM mouse for gods' sake
This is annoying in IE for OSX especially, you can't hold down the mouse button on a link or picture anymore, you have to 'right-click'(ctrl-click) to get a contextual menu.
The button on the iBooks is huge, having it split into thirds, or at the least halved would be a tremendous improvement in the ease of use for it. Using a usb mouse isn't always convenient on the go.
Sorry, I am a Mac guy from way back and I have to say that the longevity afforded to Mac users is slowly and surely fading.
As I spoke about in an earlier comment, the fact that Apple has not included support for the later Rage cards in QE is disconcerting. Never mind QE, RAVE isn't supported as of yet, either. That's alienating alot of PB and imac users. They are also not supporting the hardware-based DVD encoders (of the top of my head, late beige and B&W, iirc). That's three strikes without digging very far.
Dumping support for a product that's under a year old isn't very good business; well, it *is* good business, especially in the Mac-Zealot focus groups, but it's poor for 'normal' customer moral.
Yeah, we're getting hosed on this one.
My Indigo(g3/500) is under a year old and I can't use QE, that's pretty weak.
Not to mention the fact that, as far as I can tell, RAVE is not and most likely will not be supported under X.
I dunno, I'm pleased that OSX is finally out of it's public beta stage, heh, but I'm still displeased at the lack of built-in Eye-Candy tweaks and GL support for slightly older cards. This smells like a patented Steve Power Trip; being able to shut off Eye-Candy puts control of the UI back in the hands of the user and disrupts The Plan... whatever that is, only Steve knows
The user base for these later rage cards is big, I know Apple wants us to buy shiney new machines, but I don't have the cash to upgrade a Mac every year. (note: before I got this imac my two main Macs were a IIfx running 7.5.5 and a Quadra with 8.1)
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They still make them
It's just they are prohibitively expensive
I have some 486 ones from Dolch I picked up from someone who didn't know what they were.
Wish I had the cash for a shiney new FlexPAC with a handheld wireless display *swoon*
Manco, Inc. Duck Brand Duct Tape is one the few non-3M adhessive products I would purchase
hmmm.... 3M, Ehm-liscious
Everybody's got their vice
I want to have Bruce Dickenson's love child
Up the Irons
Apple already had 'skinnable' laptops with the Powerbook 1400.
You could get "Bookcovers"(tm) from Apple and others. Apple had(s) a template on their ftp you can download to print your own.
I seem to recall an actual useful Bookcover, a solar panel to recharge your battery, if I'm not mistaken
=I wish another game would come along with the impact that Doom had. It was just SOOOO amazing and nothing has come close since.=
Deus Ex
Meh, I liked it better when it was called System Shock
Whereever you go, There you are!
I completely agree, that's why I own a used Honda.
I get to have fun *and* I didn't have to sell internal organs or blood to do it!
Ye Olde Channel F, I have one of those. The first system to use cartridges.
Also probably the most overlooked system... The controllers were wicked cool though
Push/pull, twist, and 8-direction.
That's mostly because the clones had a superior product at a lower price...
Of course, it is bad mojo to bite the hand that feeds you I guess.
I often wondered why no one has reverse engineered apple's HW ala Compaq. I suppose if someone did they wouldn't make any money, maccies would shun it and non-maccies wouldn't care.
[[Unless of course you're a reasonably bright kid who was into computers early and skipped a proper unversity education to catch the IT boom and are now looking down the barrel of 40 years in a mature industry with no qualifications and no learning skills with which to update your specific technical knowledge.]] :/
Yeah, you can see me in the Xtramart on E. Main. I work third shift.
What's wrong with RTF or straight-up ascii?
I'm still milling over which kernel to use with my old 486's. :P
Right now, they're running 2.2.10, iirc; whatever the debian stable had on her boot disks.
I'm not going to compile any kernels until my dual ppro is fixed, because compiling a kernel on a PoS 486 portable is not fun
Anyone have any comments/recommendations on if/which new kernels are good to run on old shite?
"I've nearly reached my decision gate and I can not spare you any more time."
" * END OF LINE * "
[Paranoia]
How long will it be before the shadow government/oil,electric companies/*terrorists* buy out/steal this and wreak havoc on us all with mutated light bulb beasts that can think and speak!?!?
[/Paranoia]
I wonder if Art Bell will announce this thing... naw, that's a lie.
The campus LAN at my old school was a freaking gold mine. A lot better stuff, fun to poke around without actually looking for something particular, and the download speeds were obscenely fast.
:P
Of course, most of the student population probably doesn't know about intranet file sharing. The nerds either have to spread the word, or keep their mouths shut, depending on how many lusers they want raping internal xfer speeds
If you have to ask, you'll never know
The Atarian Age is everlasting.
The old Atari/Commie print ads are the best because *everyone* in the picture is high on cocaine.
If you remember, then you know what I'm talking about, anyone else need not reply.
Quite, but with horrendously expensive players like the Pioneer LD-S9 and HLD-X9, does one really mind?
I know I wouldn't.... hmmm, delicious 3D Comb Filters of Power [+4!]
Like many other useless sequels, this Can't Be Good(tm)
For me, the only thing that could salvage the effort would be Wendy Carlos doing the soundtrack again. Then at least we could listen to some kickass music
It'll probably be marketed at early/mid teenaged kids and have shite techno/dj 'gods' doing the music.
DUDE! You suck! :P
Is that the special re-release with the deleted scenes and that Journey song?
LD Forever!
[PA]
Aren't there bears "outside?"
[/PA]
While the "use the aftermarket" arguement has always been a crutch in the Apple community, the whole mouse thing is getting tedious.
Yes, we can all go buy 3rd party mice and use them on our Macs... Why do we have to?
Has the Reality Distortion Field cranked up to high-gear? Some of the hardware engineers have to lock Steve in a closet while they stick at least a secondary mouse button on the OEM mouse for gods' sake
This is annoying in IE for OSX especially, you can't hold down the mouse button on a link or picture anymore, you have to 'right-click'(ctrl-click) to get a contextual menu.
The button on the iBooks is huge, having it split into thirds, or at the least halved would be a tremendous improvement in the ease of use for it. Using a usb mouse isn't always convenient on the go.
Sorry, I am a Mac guy from way back and I have to say that the longevity afforded to Mac users is slowly and surely fading.
As I spoke about in an earlier comment, the fact that Apple has not included support for the later Rage cards in QE is disconcerting.
Never mind QE, RAVE isn't supported as of yet, either. That's alienating alot of PB and imac users. They are also not supporting the hardware-based DVD encoders (of the top of my head, late beige and B&W, iirc). That's three strikes without digging very far.
Dumping support for a product that's under a year old isn't very good business; well, it *is* good business, especially in the Mac-Zealot focus groups, but it's poor for 'normal' customer moral.
Yeah, we're getting hosed on this one.
My Indigo(g3/500) is under a year old and I can't use QE, that's pretty weak.
Not to mention the fact that, as far as I can tell, RAVE is not and most likely will not be supported under X.
I dunno, I'm pleased that OSX is finally out of it's public beta stage, heh, but I'm still displeased at the lack of built-in Eye-Candy tweaks and GL support for slightly older cards. This smells like a patented Steve Power Trip; being able to shut off Eye-Candy puts control of the UI back in the hands of the user and disrupts The Plan... whatever that is, only Steve knows
The user base for these later rage cards is big, I know Apple wants us to buy shiney new machines, but I don't have the cash to upgrade a Mac every year. (note: before I got this imac my two main Macs were a IIfx running 7.5.5 and a Quadra with 8.1)